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White House Social Media Archives Announced

Yesterday the White
House announced a series of archival projects related to “the first Social
Media presidency.” These include a searchable archive of over
250,000 social media posts from the Obama White House, a comprehensive collection of Obama GIFs,
an interactive
tool that analyzes White House tweets, and complete archives of the White House’s
Twitter, Facebook, and Vine accounts. The Internet
Archive will also be making White House social media data available on its
website. You can read more about these projects here.

In related news, the Internet Archive recently launched its Trump Archive,
an ongoing project that already includes over 520 hours of video related to
President-elect Donald Trump.

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